From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 7 15:32:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4459F2 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:32:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thinkerix@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm44-vm5.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm44-vm5.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.29]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 588662841 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.212.153] by nm44.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Nov 2013 15:30:22 -0000 Received: from [98.139.211.200] by tm10.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Nov 2013 15:30:22 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp209.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Nov 2013 15:30:22 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1383838222; bh=QtdCL5MLEO0Wk/bNQWEbaXkeaqvJcjvuBHQtG1TNSy4=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=2bY9I1UGhWUy4u34L3Jv0cPzRQYsz+zg+WHwQKaRuk+weUiIs8BeCrDG41Ocxn4LyBow5rIc/192+Evr2fuQA0GSMRMObp0+TWI1kgBsjdmFNzFjsIZNBneVgirD5vKVBzVib5ZWIPRN5KPGJcrzc1bxC8r+jNzYwzJC+0xscsQ= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 645217.96052.bm@smtp209.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: nhevsIUVM1n8Kq90Ah69c3i.NoqNb2IzK88xEU7y2bKauok ydZ5fX.zPCxdokN1E.OJ37PUw316MhqEeRUpz3tqoL5BDCzrYmPPrvurM6_7 wmt3UMQGuXjXqZQU4dgNxo9CBB4w0yO_fnOKZBMf76Pw4QCT9q6KnLZpVXlq pH84_VZZb4A0i.ZEAj3rbqfm6DmP6m9NpIMY721fSlffJGeqLVaexGTGpTQr Wti0O0jb4W6cV7NehMuLP49FCSQV2yRYCLcLkp5fJshYJmTmu2whX6AaozIm NOZv973AIyK771MBWak96bQRzO1R6_beY5xZ6115NpPnHS3y199MLAwD5Ugg wndk4pdpfF6ut0tEZ_UZBjJ90MzEs.RahnVuidVGT3wrSN7HbWJxzC5Fkx_A Z5d9T1xcsGckmY3gw2WSVveMyc0ynrLSSQbvzpWSxjntq.wvIgRhCs2tVFPU 42jFVQMF3cLoxSbJ8rt2dWlxrapbwhXFsCXprU0BUBQBLo0uyyEjoU5AIihW mFbue4dQU3M5HUxCgvl6KrDwM8C0Q2BjxCUr3fRDRItOMmHR4KtaM6GyO9XI tPB9kLZZ5yQewv__.gX0UHmrSykVNiiaA0z1PO7iG_zVZgjv8gsoxH3qJmT7 hTqdQfKuBS_bjSGoJZhLMzIYWaDi8XWuQAp_oT_J86A-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: nPHueTiswBAMdHpPdB1VfyPI5uMz3FquT1t0EqCkVgWWTibZYg-- X-Rocket-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (thinkerix@178.128.114.252 with ) by smtp209.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 07 Nov 2013 07:30:22 -0800 PST Message-ID: <527BB20B.9040702@rocketmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:30:19 +0200 From: Thinker Rix User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Motherbard chipset & CPU compatibility Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:32:24 -0000 Hello all! I want to buy a new server and run FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11 on it (64bit) I am interested in 2 different solutions: A) Intel Socket 1155 Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCM-F.cfm) CPU: Pentium, 3rd generation Core i3 or Xeon E3-1200 v2 Onboard NICs: Intel® 82579LM and 82574L Supermicro's compatibility list proclaims compatibility as of: FreeBSD 8.1 (http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C204.cfm) B) Intel Socket 1150 Motherboard: X10SLL-F (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SLL-F.cfm) CPU: Pentium, 4th generation Core i3 or Xeon E3-1200 v3 Onboard NICs: Intel® i217LM & 1x Intel® i210AT Supermicro's compatibility list proclaims compatibility as of: FreeBSD 9.1 (http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C222.cfm) So according to the information provided by Supermicro, only Solution A should be compatible with FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11 Questions: 1. Someone has told me, that I can use even brand new CPUs/Chipsets on the old FreeBSD version; only new cutting-edge CPU features might not be supported, but the system should be running (due to general i386-64bit compatibility?!). Is that true? Could I use solution B), too then? 2. How about the NICs of both solutions, are they supported by FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11? Thank you for any advice! Regards Thinker Rix P.S. Please do not advise me to just use newer versions of FreeBSD - the reason for me using this outdated version is that I am bound to a special-purpose distribution that is based on FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11